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Exploring the “Cozy Cabal of Academics, Dealers and Collectors” through the Schøyen Collection
2020
In the wake of the trade in ancient materials, several ethical and political issues arise that merit concern: The decimation of the cultural heritage of war-torn countries, proliferation of corruption, ideological connotations of orientalism, financial support of terrorism, and participation in networks involved in money laundering, weapon sales, human trafficking and drugs. Moreover, trafficking and trading also have a harmful effect on the fabric of academia itself. This study uses open sources to track the history of the private Schø
Propaganda ‘Worth an Army’ : The Norwegian Labour Party, Haakon Lie and the transnational dissemination of Cold War propaganda, 1945–55
2019
Author's accepted manuscript (post-print). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The International History Review on 02/06/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/07075332.2019.1622586.
Migrations of decolonization, welfare, and the unevenness of citizenship in the UK, France, and Portugal
2023
Abstract Among its many global impacts, decolonization triggered the migration of several million ‘repatriates’ — white settlers or others associated with the imperial power — who left Asia and Africa and ‘returned’ to their European ‘motherlands’. This article explores the arrival of several thousand Anglo-Egyptians into Britain in 1957 following the Suez crisis, the one million pieds-noirs who left Algeria for France in 1962, and the 500,000 retornados who entered Portugal amidst the 1975 Carnation Revolution. Offering an integrated comparison of these three key moments of decolonization via the migrations they triggered, it underscores the importance of citizenship, understood here as bo…
Politics of Identity Exploring the relevance and salience of identity as a political concept within contemporary American politics
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN501). This thesis examines how politics became identity and how politicized identities are shaping contemporary American politics. Identity as a political concept in the Western sphere evolved by virtue of our human thymotic desire to be recognized and dignified by other people. Identity as a political phenomenon rests on the belief of individuals and their surrounding society that there exists a true inner self in all of us that is both entitled to and worthy of recognition and dignity. The struggle to have that true inner self recognized was inaugurated by Martin Luther’s reconnaissance of the inner chambers of the self and moved to the social and political s…
Norse expansion and sami counterpower in Sør-Salten c. 600-1350
2021
Inkonsekvent og omskiftelig?
2021
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan historikeren P.A. Munch forholdt seg til idéen om «nordisk» nasjonalitet, og hva han mente om skandinavisme-bevegelsen da den var på sitt mest populære på midten av 1800-tallet. Skandinavismen og tanken om en fellesnordisk nasjonalitet ble aktualisert i forbindelse med de to dansk-tyske krigene i 1848–51 og 1864. Samtidig tok mange aktivt avstand fra bevegelsens ambisiøse program. Ifølge den rådende historieforskningen var den norsk-nasjonale historikeren Munch en av de fremste avstandstagerne, med unntak av en kort periode etter krigsutbruddet i 1848, da han lot seg rive med av idéen og gikk inn for svensk-norsk militærhjelp til Danmark. Denne «skandinavistisk…
Et oppkomme av glemt arbeiderradikalisme? Det Norske Arbeider-Blad i 1854
2023
I studier av de norske arbeiderforeningene rundt 1850 har Arbeider-Foreningernes Blad tradisjonelt inntatt en sen-tral plass i historikernes kildelister. Annerledes forholder det seg med Det Norske Arbeider-Blad, som ved et kupp i1854 tok over som foreningenes medlemsblad etter lang tids intern strid mellom to fraksjoner ledet av henholdsvis Marcus Thrane og Theodor Abildgaard. Bladet har tidligere nesten ikke blitt omtalt, og aldri tidligere blitt analysert– hovedsakelig fordi man de siste 70 årene har gått ut ifra at det var tapt. Likevel har det fått rykte på seg for å være«filantropisk», det vil si sosialpasifiserende, umyndiggjørende og paternalistisk. Gjennom en analyse av den gjenfun…
Building Nations after Empire: Post-Imperial Migrations to Portugal in a Western European Context
2022
Building on original research and dialoguing with scholarly works on Portugal, France and the United Kingdom, this article argues that decolonisation and migrations from the (former) colonies triggered and moulded a new, post-imperial nation-building in Western Europe. Analysing the highly significant but hitherto much-neglected case of Portugal in its broader Western European context, this claim is substantiated by surveying how these migrations affected citizenship and notions of the national community, the welfare state and public memories. Comparative and relational in its approach, the article links the histories of white ‘returnees’ from Portugal's African colonies after the 1974 Carn…
Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–80
2022
AbstractThis paper examines African peasant tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia from 1900 to 1980, from the cusp of colonialism to its end. It analyses shifting state policy towards African tobacco producers, the concomitant impact on peasant economies, accumulation patterns and the rural physical landscape and peasant responses. It focuses on the changing agricultural commodity value chains, cash crop asymmetries, and global market forces to explain colonial responses to peasant production and peasant agency. We argue that the symbolic value of each agricultural commodity, in entrenching the hierarchy of power relations and the institutionalisation of white control, mediated colonial r…